{"id":327622,"date":"2015-10-08T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/germany-initiatives-for-the-refugees\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:01:34","slug":"germany-initiatives-for-the-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/germany-initiatives-for-the-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: initiatives for the refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1443023160994\"<\/a>Germany has repeatedly made it in the headlines due to its controversial policies regarding refugees, that stirred up a reaction of the people in welcoming the many migrants who have arrived. Also the Focolare Movement<\/a> in Germany has been working for many years now for the integration of immigrants into the social context, and intensifying its welcoming initiatives in this period. Starting from the most basic needs<\/strong> \u2013 such as the collection of food, clothing, furniture and other basic items, German lessons and looking for medical or legal aid \u2013 to that of a man in Aschaffenburg,<\/strong> define \u201ca counter attack.\u201d In some cities there were also some violent episodes against the refugees and those who were helping them, but there was the firm decision to respond by giving a counter-testimonial, a message which came through forcefully. The Focolare of Dresda<\/strong> organized in this perspective, a soiree on the theme, \u201cLove your neighbour as yourself.\u201d One of the organizers said \u201cwe see how many live in anxiety or even fear: the soiree was very useful, and encouraged many people to undertake actions together.\u201d In addition to this, there was also a social media campaign, #openyourborders and #signupforpeace<\/a>, launched at international levels by the Youth for United World, together with the aim of giving a further boost to the initiatives of the United World Project<\/a>. But there are also concrete examples of daily life<\/strong>, like that of a couple from Munich, Bayern. The evening before their departure for a weekend excursion outside the city, they received a phone call asking for their willingness to host for the weekend, a young Syrian mother with three small children, while waiting to continue her journey to Karlsruhe. Though they hoped that the four would leave soon so they could at least spend a part of the weekend in the mountains, the couple \u2013 despite their internal conflict \u2013 accepted; but \u201cthe moment we took the hand of our little five-year-old princess, the ice was immediately broken,\u201d they wrote. The weekend with the unexpected guests passed with the games played with the children, sharing their breakfast where \u201cwe renounced hotdogs out of respect for our Muslim guests who highly appreciated the yoghurt and flatbread we bought for them,\u201d and a Syrian supper prepared together. And when we had to say goodbye on Sunday morning, \u201cwe all had tears in our eyes, and were happy and mutually grateful\u201d \u2013 wrote the couple. What a gift the Divine director of this unexpected programme had in store for us!\u201d Read this on www.fokolar-bewegung.de<\/a> Herberge gefunden!<\/a> Fl\u00fcchtlinge: St\u00e4rkeres Engagement gefragt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From providing for the basic needs to a \u201ccounter attack\u201d for peace, the opening of homes to refugee families. (Extra)ordinary stories of the warm reception of refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}